Getting off the bus from the Cameron Highlands in KL we instantly noticced the heat and humidity, which we hadn't really had for the days before that. We found ahostel and happened to meet Rachel & Cerys on the street who we travelled to Penang with. We stayed in china town and ate round there the frist night. The other days we were there we shopped in the numerous shopping malls some of which had 10 floors and werre really cheap. The third day we were there ...

After a 7 hour bus journey from Taman Negggara we arrived in the Cameron Highlands and stayed in a dormfor the time we were there called Daniel's Lodge whichg was really cool. Our first dorm experience, it had its own bar, movie area and space to sit around. The following day we hired push bikes in an attempt to ride to a tea plantation which was 9km away. It turned out to longer then this (we reckon!) it was all uphill, which never occured to us, in the rain, ...

Trekking for 3 dys 2 nights First day we trekked 8k from the starting point which was about 1.5hr boat ride up the river from the villageto 'a big cave' where we slept for the night. This is where we had our first aquintance with leeches, which we hated at first but learnt to pretty much ignore by te end. The trek was hot but we didnt see alot. The cavewas huge and full of bats with bat poo all over the ground. We ate a curry there courtesy of our guide and sat ...

Wee took aan overnight bus from Penang to Kuala Besut (which is the coast near the Perhenthian Islands) arriving there about 0500, hung around for 2 hrs then got a speed boat to the island . The boat ride was really fun, i think we spent most of it in the air bouncing off waves! We got there took a 10 min walk to the other side of the island to a beach called long beac, found some accomodation and pretty much sunbathed the rest of the day. The followng day we tho...

Firstly, the pic in no way symbolises Penang, there isnt much choice! Penang is a really built up which tookus by complete suprise, we thought its was going to be another Koh Lanta style small island with few people. On arriving at about 8 at night we swiftly found some accomodation in the China town area thanks to a german guy we had travelled with, then went out for some food with him and Rachel & Cerys who were alsoin our mini van. We went to india town ...